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* [[Cunning Linguist]]: Both meanings.
* [[Son of a Whore|Daughter of a Whore]]: Her mother was an adept of the Night Court.
* [[Ethical Slut]]
* [[Even the Girls Want Her]]
* [[The Fashionista]]: She does care quite a bit about clothing, and eventually becomes a fashion trendsetter.
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* [[Yuri Genre|Girls Love]]: Most notably with Melisande and Nicola.
* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: She heals quickly, an added bonus of being an ''anguisette.''
* [[High
* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Phedre goes through a stage in ''Avatar'' when she wishes she were no longer Kushiel's Chosen. There are also other times in the books when she hates the fact that she's an ''anguisette.''
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Berserk Button]]: Do not, DO NOT try to harm Phedre near him. Imriel's also off limits.
* [[
* [[Celibate Hero]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: {{spoiler|His biggest one comes in ''Chosen'' when he fights and kills David de Rocaille, the traitor Cassiline, in a duel.}}
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{{quote|''"Elua cared naught for mortal politics, nor did Kushiel."''}}
The main villainess of the series. Melisande is ambitious, sadistic, and utterly lacking in any sort of conscience. Her great ambition is to be queen, and so she concocts several Machiavellian plots to help her achieve this. She becomes a patron of Phedre's, and Phedre falls in love with her. Phedre, as an ''anguisette,'' is the perfect outlet for her sadistic desires.
Imriel is her son.
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* [[In the Blood]]: Its implied that her father's method of raising her deeply affected her character. As seen above its a minor excuse.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Manages to escape all punishment, and gets to live out her days in a villa on a Mediterranean isle. Although it is implied in canon that Imriel's torture at the Mahrkagir's hands is Kushiel's punishment for her.}}
* [[Jedi Truth]]: Melisande claims she'd never commit blasphemy personally, but {{spoiler|looks the other way when Marie-Celeste corrupts the Serenissiman priestesses. She's also forbidden by Kushieline doctrine to kill the bearer of Kushiel's Dart, but has no problem sending Phedre into dangerous situations where she'd be indirectly responsible for her death.}}
* [[Likable Villain]]
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: See the Jedi Truth section.
* [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]]: And how!
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]
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* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: She is generally a wise ruler and beloved by her people, but in ''Mercy'' {{spoiler|she declares war on them while under Carthage's spell.}}
* [[The High Queen]]
* [[
* [[Ice Queen]]: Can be this at times.
* {{spoiler|[[Offing the Offspring]]: While enchanted during ''Mercy,'' she declares war on Alais.}}
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* [[Jerkass]]: Especially to Imriel.
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]: He is one of very few people Melisande is wary of and views as a threat to her plans.
* [[Master Swordsman]]: He impressed the [[Proud Warrior Race]] Akkadians with his skills.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: He is the only great lord who ''isn't'' in the City of Elua when the Carthaginians put their spell on the city.
* [[Parental Substitute]]: To Ysandre.
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* [[I Have You Now, My Pretty]]
* [[Rape Is Love]]: {{spoiler|His idea of love is to rape Phedre with a spiked rod.}}
* [[Religion of Evil]]: The religion of Angra Mainyu, which the Mahrkagir is head of.
=== Thelesis de Mornay ===
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* [[The Casanova]]
* [[Depraved Bisexual]]: While not malicious, Mavros ''is'' a Shahrizai.
* [[Good
* [[Lovable Sex Maniac]]
* [[Token Evil Teammate|Token Depraved Teammate]]: Is, easily, the kinkiest member of Imriel's immediate circle of friends at court. He rather delights in this.
== '''Moirin's trilogy''' ==
[[File:Naamahs_Blessing_front_cover_9800.jpg|frame|Moirin]]
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=== Moirin mac Fainche ===
The protagonist of the third trilogy. She begins the story as something of a [[
* {{spoiler|[[Babies Ever After]]}}
* [[Bi the Way]]: Most of her relationships in the Naamah novels involve women but her two most recurring paramours are both men.
* [[Fish Out of Water]]: Her status during Kiss.
* [[Green Eyes]]: Inherited from her father.
* [[Green Thumb]]: One of the abilities her bloodline gives her is the ability to talk to plants and make them grow.
* [[Halfbreed]]: Half Alban and half D'Angeline.
* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]}}: Becomes this at the end of Blessing.
* [[Les Yay]]: Most of her relationships in the Naamah novels involve women.
* [[Lineage Comes From the Father]]: Inverted. In Alban custom children inherit through the female line. This is why her surname is mac Fainche, meaning ''"from Fainche"''.
* [[Love You and Everybody]]: What her powers from Naamah give her. Every time she feels the pull of her ''diadh-anam'' towards a certain person she ''will'' end up having sex with them.
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* [[Superpower Lottery]]: Her mother's line is descended from Princess Alais of the second trilogy, giving her the powers of an ''ollamh'' a type of combined seer and priestess. On that note, she also has descent from fallen angels Elua and Naamah through Princess Alais' own combined Courcel/L'Envers heritage. Her father's line is descended from Anael, the fallen angel who gave d'Angelines their farming skills. This gives Moirin the power to turn herself invisible, talk to plants, incite lust in other characters and access the powers of the ''Maghuin Donn'' or "bear-witch" in the Alban language.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: Readers often accuse Moirin of being this for Phedre.
▲* [[Wild Child]]: At the beginning of the first book.
* [[Yuri Genre]]
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=== Master Lo Feng ===
* [[Badass Grandpa]] / [[Retired Badass]]
* [[Old Master]]
* [[Trickster Mentor]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Death by Childbirth]]}}: {{spoiler|Dies giving birth to a baby daughter by Daniel de la Courcel,named Desiree.}}
* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]
* [[High
* [[The High Queen]]
* [[Gold Digger]]: Averted. Some of the citizens in the City of Elua think this of her but she and Daniel truly love each other.
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=== Raphael de Mereliot ===
The [[Big Bad]] of the third trilogy and a former lover of both Jehanne and Moirin. He is a d'Angeline nobleman and the son of the current Lady of Marsilikos.
* [[Ambition Is Evil]]
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=== Thierry de la Courcel. ===
Son of Daniel de la Courcel and his first wife; he is the Dauphin to the throne of Terre d'Ange during Moirin's trilogy.
* {{spoiler|[[Awesome Moment of Crowning]]}}: At the end of Blessing.
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=== Liliane de Souverain and Pierre Cantrel ===
The biological parents of Phedre no Delaunay. Liliane de Souverain was part of a long line of women who served Naamah as adepts of the Night Court, namely Jasmine House. Due to the exotic tenets of Jasmine House, she is honey skinned, dark haired and black eyed. Pierre was the third son of a merchant of blond hair and blue eyed persuasion. Liliane ran away to elope with Pierre Cantrel because the Dowayne of the House forbade her marriage to Pierre on the basis that a child from their union would not fit the standards for Jasmine House and because Pierre could not afford to buy her marque. Phedre was born as a result of their union, but was "too pale for Jasmine House and too dark haired and dark eyed for Cereus House". Before the discovery of Kushiel's Dart, the mote in her eye is seen as a blemish and thus made Phedre unfit for any of the Houses in the Night Court. When the two are too poor to settle their debts, they sell Phedre as an indentured servant to the Dowayne of Cereus House.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Averted. Phedre finds the fact that they never tried to claim her after the ''Bitterest Winter'' unforgivable and prefers to think that they just died during that period.
* [[Hot Gypsy Woman]]: Liliane. One of the reasons Phedre as a child noticed Hyacinthe was because he resembled her mother complexion wise. Most adepts of Jasmine House are rumoured to have Bhodistani (analogous to Indian) ancestry in their heritage.
* [[Parental Abandonment]]
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== Court of Night-Blooming Flowers ==
An elite cadre of prostitutes known as ''Servants of Naamah'' that are the highest ranked courtesans in Terre d'Ange. Prostitution is considered a religious act for adepts of the Court, as it is elsewhere in Terre d'Ange, and adepts make offerings to Naamah during their service. All thirteen houses are based in the City of Elua, the d'Angeline capital in the district known as ''Mont Nuit''. Each house has its own motto which both serves to provide their unique theory as to why Naamah offered herself to the King of Persis in d'Angeline folklore and to describe the tenets conveyed by each house.
=== ''The Houses'' ===
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=== Seth ben Yavin ===
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